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Old Mill Creek, IL, Elizabeth S. Fraterrigo(
Authored Entry
) ...Old Mill Creek, IL...
...County , five miles south of the Wisconsin border, Old Mill Creek remained a rural community well...
...agricultural community that would later become Old Mill Creek. Jacob Miller built a sawmill and...
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Chicago (Chicago Transit Authority), Jeanette L. Casey(
Authored Entry
) ...Chicago (...
...Chicago Transit Authority)...
...releasing its first album in 1969. It went gold, the first of 18 albums to reach gold or platinum...
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George Pullman and His Town, Liston E. Leyendecker(
Authored Entry
) ...George Pullman and His Town...
...Avenue. After 1881, when Pullman opened the town of Pullman, Illinois, to house his construction...
...George Pullman established himself in Chicago in March 1859, as a building raiser and mover. He soon...
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Chicago Marathon, Patrick B. Miller(
Authored Entry
) ...Chicago Marathon...
...Inaugurated in September 1977, the Chicago Marathon grew from modest beginnings into an athletic...
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Mapping Chicago, Old and New, (
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...Old and New...
...Mapping Chicago,...
...maps adapted from the Sanitary District Map of Chicago. Areas covered by industries (located mostly...
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Chicago Commons, Louise Carroll Wade(
Authored Entry
) ...Chicago Commons...
...Chicago Commons was established in the fall of 1894 and modeled on Hull...
...House . Founder Graham Taylor had come to Chicago Theological Seminary to teach applied Christianity...
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Chicago Wilderness, Stephen Packard(
Authored Entry
) ...Chicago Wilderness...
...to create a culture of conservation for the Chicago region, centered on the region's 200,000 acres...
...Most high-quality unpreserved lands in the Chicago area were subsequently acquired by state, county,...
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Chicago Stadium, Donald A. Hayner(
Authored Entry
) ...Chicago Stadium...
...The Chicago Stadium was the city's premier all-purpose indoor arena for 65 years. Built for $7...
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Migrants to Chicago, (
Authored Entry
) ...Migrants to Chicago...
...Kronborg was a rather incurious migrant to Chicago in Willa Cather's The Song of the Lark (1915):...
...first winter Thea got no city consciousness. Chicago was simply a wilderness through which one had...
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New Chicago, IN, Steven Essig(
Authored Entry
) ...New Chicago, IN...
...SE of the Loop. Incorporated in 1908, New Chicago is part of the Gary metro area, located southeast...
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Chicago Defender, Wallace Best(
Authored Entry
) ...Chicago Defender...
...Southerners to northern cities. “I bought a Chicago Defender and after reading it and seeing the...
...Sengstacke Abbott produced the first issue of the Chicago Defender on May 6, 1905. What began as a...
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Chicago Lawn, Eileen M. McMahon(
Authored Entry
) ...Chicago Lawn...
...establishing a network of institutions that earned their community the label of Lithuanian Gold...
...Coast. They formed some of the richest savings and loans in the city. The Lithuanian Sisters of St....
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Mapping Chicago, Robert W. Karrow, Jr.(
Authored Entry
) ...Mapping Chicago...
...surveyed and drew the first plat for the proposed town of Chicago. Thompson's original manuscript...
...1877 with Charles Rascher's Fire Insurance Map of Chicago. The Sanborn-Perris Map Company issued its...
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Daley's Chicago, Roger Biles(
Authored Entry
) ...Daley's Chicago...
...held in check, resulting in the election of Chicago's first black mayor, Harold Washington, in 1983....
...An Irish Catholic native of Chicago's Bridgeport neighborhood, Richard J. Daley attended parochial...
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Chicago Tribune, Mark R. Wilson(
Authored Entry
) ...Chicago Tribune...
...giant that employed close to six thousand Chicago-area residents, the future of traditional print...
...the Tribune, now available in electronic form, continued to be Chicago's leading newspaper....
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Saul Bellow on Chicago, (
Authored Entry
) ...Saul Bellow on Chicago...
...spread orange light over the dark shapes of the town, over the branches of the river and the black...
...Adventures of Augie March (1949): I am an American, Chicago born—Chicago, that somber city—and go at...
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Chicago School of Economics, Deirdre N. McCloskey(
Authored Entry
) ...Chicago School of Economics...
...antisocialist approach of the University of Chicago Department of Economics, typified by Milton...
...Friedman, came to be known as the Chicago School of Economics. Like other Chicago schools it...
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Chicago School of Sociology, Henry Yu(
Authored Entry
) ...Chicago School of Sociology...
...When the University of Chicago was founded in 1892, it established the nation's first department of...
...across the country. During its early history, Chicago sociology was connected with progressive...
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Bob Fosse: His Chicago Beginnings, Richard Christiansen(
Authored Entry
) ...Bob Fosse: His Chicago Beginnings...
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Chicago Teachers Federation, Kate Rousmaniere(
Authored Entry
) ...Chicago Teachers Federation...
...under the Loeb rule, which prohibited Chicago teachers from membership in any organization...
...and it developed great political clout in Chicago and in the larger educational community. Haley's...
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